by Friedrich Nietzsche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681505127
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«La gaya ciencia» is the philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Editores Mexicanos Unidos in paperback.
Nietzsche reflects on morality, truth and knowledge, and addresses the death of God, nihilism and eternal recurrence. With an aphoristic and poetic style, he invites readers to question traditional values and examine the role of truth, suffering and achievements in human existence, championing an affirmation of life.
This work originally appeared in 1882 under the title Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. This 1995 edition is part of the Clásicos de Siempre collection and bears the indication Volumen Extra.
For readers interested in philosophy and aphoristic literature, with a special interest in the critique of morality and traditional values.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
